** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' mostly has a Pacific island feel for its characters, with a {{Goth}} and a tribal beastman thrown in. Then there's Auron, who's a walking gallery of ronin imagery to go along with all those BadAss tropes. And don't forget [[SummonMagic Yojimbo]].

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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' mostly has a Pacific island feel for its characters, with a {{Goth}} and a tribal beastman thrown in. Then there's Auron, who's a walking gallery of ronin imagery to go along with all those BadAss badass tropes. And don't forget [[SummonMagic Yojimbo]].

* ''Franchise/TheTransformers'' G1 has Bludgeon, a Decepticon whose Pretender shell (in Marvel's run) and actual body (in IDW's) is modeled to look like samurai armor with a kabuto helmet and skull-like face. He's always depicted as fighting with a giant katana using the Cybertronian martial art Metallikato even though his action figure came with a gun. Also prone to calling his opponent [[YouFool "Fool!"]]

* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' features samurai themed battlemechs in the Draconis Combine, and they come with mech sized katanas.

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* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' features samurai themed battlemechs in the Draconis Combine, and they come with mech sized katanas. The Combine's warriors are themselves called samurai and expected to behave as such: they attempt to fight in single combat whenever possible, carry swords, and if they screw up badly on the battlefield they're even expected to commit seppuku.

* The ''Anime/HaloLegends'' short "The Duel" shows the Elites wearing samurai clothes when not in combat, and TheDragon is even dressed in full samurai-esque armor (he's also the only Elite to use a metal sword instead of an energy one). Despite the artistic license, Elite culture ''does'' canonically have similarities to that of feudal Japan.

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* The ''Anime/HaloLegends'' short "The Duel" ''The Duel'' shows the Elites wearing samurai clothes when not in combat, and TheDragon is even dressed in full samurai-esque armor (he's also the only Elite to use a metal sword instead of an energy one). Despite the artistic license, Elite culture ''does'' canonically have similarities to that of feudal Japan.

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', the Land of Iron has samurai, instead of the {{ninja}} in Hidden Villages most other nations rely on. For added goodness, in relation to trope picture, the regular samurai of the Land of Iron wear armor similar to the [[StarWars Stormtroopers]].

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* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', the Land of Iron has samurai, instead of the {{ninja}} in Hidden Villages most other nations rely on. For added goodness, in relation to trope picture, the regular samurai of the Land of Iron wear armor similar to the [[StarWars Stormtroopers]].Franchise/{{St|arWars}}ormtroopers.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' comics have Paul the Samurai, despite all the other heroes being over the top cape and cowl style. His primary role is to be there to recommend that he and anybody associated with him commits seppuku at the slightest failure.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' ''ComicBook/TheTick'' comics have Paul the Samurai, despite all the other heroes being over the top cape and cowl style. His primary role is to be there to recommend that he and anybody associated with him commits seppuku at the slightest failure.

* Trained by Wrestling/TAKAMichinoku out of the Kaientai Dojo and seen among Wrestling/DramaticDreamTeam, Wrestling/ProWrestlingZero1 and perhaps most appropriately, Big Japan([[TheOneGuy least appropriately]] in Ice Ribbon), Isami Kodaka is known as "The [[GarbageWrestler Death Match]] Samurai" and even carries a (sheathed) samurai sword.

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* Trained by Wrestling/TAKAMichinoku out of the Kaientai Dojo and seen among Wrestling/DramaticDreamTeam, Wrestling/ProWrestlingZero1 and perhaps most appropriately, Big Japan([[TheOneGuy Japan ([[TheOneGuy least appropriately]] in Ice Ribbon), Isami Kodaka is known as "The [[GarbageWrestler Death Match]] Samurai" and even carries a (sheathed) samurai sword.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}}'': The [[OurElvesAreBetter Craftworld Eldar]] have curved swords, naginata-like polearms and guns that fire monomolecular shuriken, and some of their warriors, such as Prince Yriel, have back-banners, as do [[MiniMecha wraithlords]]. The Path system in their society also bears a number of similarities to the tenets of Bushido. If that wasn't enough, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything they view humans as hairy barbarian upstarts and isolate themselves on their planetoid-sized colony ships]].

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}}'': 40000}}'': The [[OurElvesAreBetter Craftworld Eldar]] have curved swords, naginata-like polearms and guns that fire monomolecular shuriken, and some of their warriors, such as Prince Yriel, have back-banners, as do [[MiniMecha wraithlords]]. The Path system in their society also bears a number of similarities to the tenets of Bushido. If that wasn't enough, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything they view humans as hairy barbarian upstarts and isolate themselves on their planetoid-sized colony ships]].

* In ''VideoGame/MegaManX''6, the player has the option of assembling the [[http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s158/clarklana05/megamanxbladearmor.jpg?t=1241052973 Blade Armor]] which resembles a suit of Samurai armor, complete with Z-saber.

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* In ''VideoGame/MegaManX''6, ''VideoGame/MegaManX6'', the player has the option of assembling the [[http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s158/clarklana05/megamanxbladearmor.jpg?t=1241052973 Blade Armor]] which resembles a suit of Samurai armor, complete with Z-saber.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'' games' "Quick Draw" minigame have the characters dressed as samurai. (Though earlier English translations replaced samurai with cowboys, turning a SingleStrokeBattle into a wild west shootout.)

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* The ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'' ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' games' "Quick Draw" minigame have the characters dressed as samurai. (Though earlier English translations replaced samurai with cowboys, turning a SingleStrokeBattle into a wild west shootout.)

* Every installment of the ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'' series so far has had at least one minigame featuring a character known as the Wandering Samurai, whose levels involve defending a village from {{tengu}}, attacking demons that appear from a portal, and [[Main/MundaneMadeAwesome slicing watermelons.]]

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* Every installment of the ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'' series so far has had at least one minigame featuring a character known as the Wandering Samurai, whose levels involve defending a village from {{tengu}}, attacking demons that appear from a portal, and [[Main/MundaneMadeAwesome [[MundaneMadeAwesome slicing watermelons.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' deconstructs this with Da Samurai; a JiveTurkey guy in disco pants that is more or less a thug with a katana, which he uses more like a club than an actual sword, who uses his self-proclaimed status as a "samurai" to bully people and (fail to) pick up ladies. The show's actual Samurai humbles him by the end of the episode, by kicking his ass without breaking a sweat while also teaching him a bit about the real values of a samurai.

** Even the final evolution to this line, Samurott/Daikenki, is based off a samurai, though they has the capacity to dual wield the [[AllThereInTheManual seami]][[UnfortunateName tars]], and spend most of their time as quadrupedal Pokemon.

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** Even the final evolution to this line, Samurott/Daikenki, is based off a samurai, though they has have the capacity to dual wield the [[AllThereInTheManual seami]][[UnfortunateName tars]], and spend most of their time as quadrupedal Pokemon.

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